Ever since her childhood and throughout her near century-long life, the great American painter Georgia O'Keeffe turned the way she dressed her body into an affirmation of herself, both as a woman and a modern artist. She used the same originality and stylistic imagination to create her wardrobe as she used to create her paintings, leaving us a corpus of dresses of her own design or choice. A knowledge of these is fundamental to understanding the artist in her various dimensions, and her time in its various transformations and ruptures. ‘Her meticulous choice of clothes and the way she posed prove that she clearly knew the image she wanted to project and immortalise’ says the author of this essay, Anabela Becho, fashion historian, curator and researcher.